| 1924 - 104 Seiten
...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are...Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice islands our hotbeds ; the Persians, our silk-weavers ; and the Chinese, our potters. Nature indeed... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 Seiten
...the Bowels of Indostan. . . Our Ships are laden with the Harvest of every Climate : Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, and Wines : Our Rooms...China, and adorned with the Workmanship of Japan : Our Morning's-Draught comes to us from the remotest Corners of the Earth : We repair our Bodies by the... | |
| Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - 1925 - 456 Seiten
...whole Face of Nature among us. Our Ships are laden with the Harvest of every Climate: Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, and Wines: Our Rooms...China, and adorned with the Workmanship of Japan: Our Morning's-Draught comes to us from the remotest Corners of the Earth: We repair our Bodies by the Drugs... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 Seiten
...Ships are laden with the Harvest of every Climate : Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, 354 and Wines : Our Rooms are filled with Pyramids of...China, and adorned with the Workmanship of Japan : Our Morning's-Draught comes to us from the remotest Corners of the Earth : We repair our Bodies by the... | |
| Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 Seiten
...Razionale della Lingua Inglese, pag. 33, par. 2, pubblicata dullo stesso autore di queste Letture. filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught (1) comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America,... | |
| Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn (bart.) - 1928 - 88 Seiten
...Writing in 1711, Addison said: " Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china and adorned with workmanship of japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we... | |
| Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power - 1941 - 776 Seiten
...the rich, and magnificence to the great. The words are Addison's. He goes on : Our ships are laden with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we... | |
| 1901 - 502 Seiten
...Hamburg beansprucht wurde : "Our Ships are laden with the Harvest of every Climate: Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, and Wines: Our Rooms are filled with Pyramids of China, and adomed with the Workmanship of Japan: Our Morning's-Üraught cbmes to us from the remotest Corners... | |
| Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 Seiten
...whole Face of Nature among us ... Our ships are laden with the Harvest of every Climate: Our Tables are stored with Spices, and oils, and Wines: Our Rooms...China, and adorned with the Workmanship of Japan: Our Morning's-Draught comes to us from the remotest Corners of the Earth: We repair our Bodies by the Drugs... | |
| Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - 1994 - 364 Seiten
...nonetheless, is engendered by exchange, trade makes the entire earth and its peoples the property of England: "My Friend Sir Andrew calls the Vineyards of France...Gardens: the SpiceIslands our Hot-beds; the Persians our Silk- Weavers, and the Chinese our Potters" (i: 2.95-96). By "supplying foreign Markets with the Growth... | |
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